Oh, Never Mind. What Was I Thinking?
Hard times are coming. In such times you need to know your real friends, those you can count on. This is as true for nations as it is for individuals.…
July 2017
July 25: A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Sorry for the long intro below. It’s a sort of history of the world since 1914. It’s necessary because the news media never mentioned most of this. For those who…
Requiem for the Hangover of a Canadian Immigrant – Original Song # 36
Eleven months in Still finding your place You cheer for the Habs Watch The Amazing Race The kids have made friends Learned some French, ate Subway But you cannot find…
Requiem for the Hangover of a Canadian Immigrant – Original Song # 36
Eleven months in Still finding your place You cheer for the Habs Watch The Amazing Race The kids have made friends Learned some French, ate Subway (Read more…) you cannot…
Wind Will Be Cheaper Than Natural Gas
Will be? Naw, it has been for years. Still, SaskPower is building another 350MW of natural gas to go online in 2019, while building far less than 300MW of wind…
How to Defend Science From Political Interference: New Study
Politically inconvenient findings can be revealed by scientific research and, as concerns grow in the U.S about a clampdown on the ability of scientists to speak freely, it is up…
Taming the Wild West
It’s time to drain the swamp now that Christy Clark and the BC Liberals have been ousted from power. Only unlike what Trump meant by the term, basically nothing, British…
A sad picture tells a sad story
Here’s a picture of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls booth at the Assembly of First Nations in Regina. It’s closed. No literature. What a bloody disgrace, as…
WTF? Sessions Again?
As if to erase all doubt that he’s barking mad, America’s imperial president is again hectoring his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions. President Trump launched another public assault Tuesday morning…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #24
I have a TIHATL double-header today, plus a bonus round. A customer asked for something by Omar Tyree. We had only one copy of one title, and that was in…
News on the Climate Change Front, Mostly Good
First the good news. The Vancouver-based National Observer reports that Canadian security regulators are beginning to scrutinize publicly-traded companies to determine if they’re hiding climate change risks from investors. This…
Ten Things to Know About Social Assistance in Alberta
I’ve just written a blog post about social assistance in Alberta. Points raised in the post include the following: -It’s very difficult to quality for social assistance in Alberta (this…
To Block a Pipeline Nuns Built a Chapel
For me, religion usually doesn’t come to mind when thinking about how to stop pipelines. Luckily the idea to use religious places came to the mind of some nuns. In…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday July 25, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. “My ex-employer just gave me a severance proposal, but I…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jerry Dias and Dennis Williams write about the fundamental changes which we should be seeking to make to NAFTA in order to…
Dimwit-In-Chief
Last night, Donald Trump — in a bizarre speech to the Boy Scouts of America — again praised the importance of loyalty. But Jeff Sessions must be questioning the value…
The Day Donald Trump Revealed His Inner Fuhrer
He's been rehearsing for the role for a long time, from the days when he kept a copy of Hitler's speeches on his bedside table.And yesterday Donald Drumph finally got…
UCP merger kickstarts another summer of politics in Alberta
Photo: Wildrose leader Brian Jean formally launches his campaign to lead the United Conservative Party (source: Facebook) It has been a busy week in Alberta politics, and it is only…